Years ago Arthur Koestler pegged 'demonic people':
™-- The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or cause, and to espouse its credo uncritically and enthusiastically, even if its tenets are contrary to reason, devoid of self-interest and detrimental to the claims of self-preservation. We are thus driven to the unfashionable conclusion that the trouble with our species is not an excess of aggression, but an excess capacity for fanatical devotion. --"
There is no good reason why the behaviors of the non-criminal-parasite 98% of the population should be punitively controlled because of a lack of political will to deal with the 2%.
The fanatical among us demand that the demon rum, the demon gun be blamed, -- and above all that 'the cause' be served..
Koestler was correct, as was Hoffer, as was Orwell, as was Solzhenitsyn.
Are any of these authors accessible to the lefty elites who think they know how to run the world better?
Orwell might as well have stayed in bed as write Animal Farm and 1984 for the benefit of his socialist pals - the very ones who betrayed him.
The tragedy of contemporary American politics is that public-schooled Americans are oblivious to the socialist nature of so much American law and public institutions. None of this legislation had to be translated from some original German or Russian or French - Americans are fully capable of imagining their own distinctive brand of socialism.
Whatever its provenance, the socialist impulse is simultaneously murderous and suicidal.